Nine member states share our CAP reform concerns

IRELAND is part of a 66% majority of member states with concerns in the Common Agricultural Policy reform debate, said Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh this week.

Nine other EU member states share some or all of our concerns about the proposed reform, he said.

On Monday, he gave a commitment to 34 young FETAC-Teagasc certificate graduates in Co Cork that he will not agree to changes to the Agenda 2000 version of CAP that would impact negatively on the young farmers’ futures.